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and I'll be sitting with a perpetual grin on my face, unable to put out of my thoughts that I've picked up a DVD32R for a saving of £1,900, an AV32R 7.1 Dual Processor for a saving of £1,400 and a 100x5R:7 for a saving of £1,800.

Ker ching....

Smugness is a dreadful thing, but I'm wallowing in the feeling right now!

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Originally posted by yikes and I'll be sitting with a perpetual grin on my face, unable to put out of my thoughts that I've picked up a DVD32R for a saving of £1,900, an AV32R 7.1 Dual Processor for a saving of £1,400 and a 100x5R:7 for a saving of £1,800.

Ker ching....

Smugness is a dreadful thing, but I'm wallowing in the feeling right now!

Cheers
Richard

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Give us all a laugh and go back to the dealer and ask them how much now for that kit
I'd love to see the look on their faces

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I've just posted the text of that announcement to a friend and await his comments, following his return from holiday in a few days.

In the meantime, I'm happy to hear that it doesn't appear to be 'all dark times ahead' for Tag McLaren. Whilst I'll almost certainly never be in the market for their products (or any 'high-end' gear ), I believe in the presence of a high-end/aspirational market and am glad to see a company at the forefront of this category to post a more promising announcement.

Oh, why do I believe in the industry's requirement for this market sector? Er, well what else would you guys spend your hard-earned on?!? And what else would there be to look at and read about in the magazines that I occasionally purchase...?

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Originally posted by The Beekeeper any dealers left? I have yet to have a possitive reply from all the Tag dealers I emailed

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I was in Prestige Audio in Rickmansworth the other day, before the latest announcement and they indicated they would continue to sell TAG products. Interestingly, Sevenoaks Watfors, whom I purchased my AV32 from, have several TAG products going cheap, and are no longer on the dealers list on the TAG website.

Nic, try contacting, perhaps by phone, the dealers still listed on TAG's website.

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Hi all,
you should all slow down and wait to see how it really goes on.

Tag stated they will continue HC development, but prior to that they also said many times there was nothing left to develop in HC at the moment apart from that scaler.
One should be very carefull with Udo Zucker, man with good vision but definitely not the one to trust.

Time will be the best judge

In the hell there is no beer, that's why we drink here.
Cheers, Plump !

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Frankly, a major part of Tag's customer proposition was not only that a bunch of upgrades was already available but that Tag was committed to producing upgrades for new technology which emerged at a later date. Whatever Tag says now this part of their customer proposition has been destroyed by recent events.

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Job advert for a Senior Design Engineer at a Cambridge firm, quote:
"Currently the team is working on our second generation DVD player, the DVD192R, which is at an advanced stage and will enter production later this year."

So it looks like there will be new products (and DVD32R upgrade) released.

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Im sure Tantalus remarks were made in jest, but for the record, all reviewers, editors and the like own some equipment or other. I own an MC-12B so that does make me a Lexicon supporter to a certain degree, but I also own Meridian gear, Bryston, Rotel and others.

It really is a stretch to suggest that hardware affiliations have a bearing on this story any more than any of the other good or bad news we (as journalists) bring to our readers. The TAG release was given to me by another industry member, it didnt come directly from a TAG dealer nor was it proactively sought, but as it was a scoop at the time was posted on the site as, I think everyone will agree, it was of fairly widespread interest. Whats that old saying about dont shoot the messenger?

And for what its worth, Im right behind whatever TAG does to help its current customers with upgrades, support etc. As Ive said all along, as far as Im concerned theyre the ones that really matter so this part of the conversation is now somewhat moot.

One thing that Id like to make patently clear however, is that I didnt start this situation, unfortunately whatever corporate mess they may or may not be in is wholly of TAGs own making.

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I would hate to see Tag go, however I wonder if this is enough to give the public enough confidence to buy their products. Gear at this level is a big commitment and I am not sure if enough people will commit.

The handling of this affair was awful and extreemly damaging. If this was a public company share holders would be demanding a head to roll over this but we will have to wait and see.